The reedy voices of Mark Olson and Gary Louris are why the Jayhawks stood out from the '90s alt-country crowd - two inextricably linked stalks of lonesome beauty, they remain impossible to discern from each other, impossible to peel apart. The Jayhawks also made some of the best harmony-laden, Fuzz Face–soaked, post-cosmic American music of that decade, so, you know, that helps. Hollywood Town Hall, with moody minor-key rockers "Waiting for the Sun" and "Wichita" (and the swift hands of session men Benmont Tench and Nicky Hopkins), is the group's best, but the more adventurous Tomorrow the Green Grass (their last with Olson) is nearly as good. On the eve of a reunion tour and a new studio album, both modern classics are revisited as separate deluxe reissues - which means not only outtakes and B-sides like the rocking "Leave No Gold," the country ditty "Keith and Quentin," and the gospel staple "Up Above My Head," but an entire disc of acoustic demos to accompany Tomorrow the Green Grass. On that, the voices of Olson and Louris are laid exceedingly bare - we're talkin' cassette-tape, woodsheddingly bare - and it's a fitting way to reintroduce a band built upon that very stuff. Although if it makes you feel more comfortable to smother it all with gnarly SG feedback, you'll find that here too

Fall Music Preview: Stay positive The face of the local nightlife landscape undergoes a major change in the form of a renewal this autumn, as the State Theatre’s exhaustively maligned absence ends on October 15, with 10 fall concerts on their docket already. But that’s not the only new venue to look out for.

Review: Teengirl Fantasy | 7AM If the demise of traditional record making is designed to foster any band’s fruitful existence, it’s that of Teengirl Fantasy.

Review: Screaming Females | Castle Talk Screaming Females are one of those rare examples of a band who fester so long in the dark — in this case, the teeming basements of New Brunswick, New Jersey — that they sour into something great by the time anyone’s heard of them.

BROWN BIRD | FITS OF REASON | March 18, 2013 Brown Bird, a boundary-pushing Americana duo from Rhode Island, make music that touches upon that can't-put-my-finger-on-it amalgamation of past and future sounds.

NICK CAVE &AMP; THE BAD SEEDS | PUSH THE SKY AWAY | February 20, 2013 Much like the similarly low-key The Boatman's Call , Cave's highly anticipated 15th album with the Bad Seeds manages the puzzling feat of making a great band seem inconsequential, if not entirely absent.

SCOTT WALKER | BISH BOSCH | November 27, 2012 Scott Walker's late-period about-face is one of the strangest in the annals of pop music.